Sunday, 26 May, 2013 - 02:45
Island News
 Port Blair, 25 May 2013/--/The hapless passengers of MV Nancowry that arrived here today from Chennai, had a frightening and harrowing time on board as the sea water gushed in after one of the bunk class portholes... |
 Port Blair, 25 May 2013/--/The debrief of Coastal Security Exercise, Tatsuraksha 01/13 was held in the conference hall of Secretariat on Friday. The meeting was chaired by the Chief Secretary, Mr Anand Prakash. The... |
 Port Blair, 25 May 2013/--/The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will declare the results of the Class 12 Examinations 2013 at 10 am on Monday (May 27). The Board has made special arrangements for quick access... |
National News
 Mumabi/New Delhi, 25 May 2013/--/Board Of Control For Cricket in India (BCCI) President N Srinivasan remained defiant on Saturday rejecting demands for his resignation but moves are said to be afoot to oust him in the... |
 Mumbai, 25 May 2013/--/Gurunath Meiyappan, Chennai Super Kings owner and son-in-law of the BCCI chief, used to place "huge bets" on IPL matches and was even divulging team's strategy to bookies, Mumbai police today... |
Sports News
 Wellington, 25 May 2013/--/According to the New Zealand media, master spinner Daniel Vettori has a black cloud hovering over his Test-playing future after he pulled out of the second test against England at Leeds,... |
 Brazil, 25 May 2013/--/ The attacker has described "the happiest day of my life" after Santos accepted bids on Friday, believed to be from Barcelona and Liga rivals Real Madrid.
Neymar has revealed he will take time to... |
State Bytes
Kolkata, 25 May 2013/--/Political parties will no longer be allowed to hold law violation programmes in the metropolis while public meetings have been banned at the Metro channel as it disrupted public life, the Kolkata Police said today, with opposition
parties vociferously protesting the decision...
Kolkata, 25 May 2013/--/West Bengal State Election Commissioner Mira Pandey has claimed to have received three threatening letters, following which state Home Secretary said the government would inquire into the matter.
"I received a letter from her (State Election Commissioner) which seeks to draw...
Business News
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Mumbai, 25 May 2013/--/Gold prices improved further at the domestic bullion market here today on sustained low-level demand amid wedding season offtake. Silver also firmed up owing to steady industrial demand. Standard... |
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Vallenar (Chile), 25 May 2013/--/Chile's environmental regulator has blocked Barrick Gold Corp's USD 8.5 billion Pascua-Lama project and imposed its maximum fine on the world's largest gold miner, citing "very serious"... |
Reflex Action
25 May 2013/--/At the time of Independence in 1947, India had only three steel plants – the Tata Iron & Steel Company (Jamshedpur), the Indian Iron and Steel Company (Burnpur) and Visveswaraya Iron & Steel Ltd (Bhadravathi), besides a few electric arc furnace-based plants. The period till 19...
Political Delicacies
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5 May 2013/--/Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is missing Pranab Mukherjee. Manmohan Singh and Pranab Mukherjee were political friends and rivals simultaneously for the last eight years till Mukherjee be... |
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28 Apr 2013/--/Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wants to contest the Lok Sabha elections in 2014. The first Sikh Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, after serving the country as Rajya Sabha member, now wants... |
Video News
Echo World
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Kathmandu, 25 May 2013/--/UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked all political parties in Nepal to overcome political obstacles in holding the country's next elections within the existing time frame.
According to... |
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Lahore, 25 May 2013/--/In a tragic accident, 16 children and a teacher were charred to death in Pakistan's Punjab province today when a leaking gas cylinder triggered a fire in the bus taking them to school, police said... |
Market Watch
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Mumbai, 24 May 2013/--/Amid choppy trade, short-coverings in some key counters in the last day of the week after four- day of sluggish trend, aided the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex to recover moderately by 30 points to end at 19,704.33.
Asian markets closed narrowly mixed while European stocks were... |
Editorial
25 May 2013/--/The North Koreans have up to 200 missile launchers, says the Korea Institute of Defence Analyses. What about the number of missiles? What about the number of nuclear warheads for the missiles? And what about their other destructive weapons and the huge number of ‘men-at-arms’? There’s absolutely no need to elaborate upon the other weapons in the huge North Korean armamentarium. This...